Photographic medal



AUNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

HUMPHREY E. COPELEY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDAL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 81,871, dated April 2, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUMPHREY E. Corn- LEY, of the city of 'Waterbury inthe county of New I-Iaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a newand Improved Mode off Ornamenting Medals, Buttons, and other Similar'Articles of Manufacture; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.'

Figures l and 2 are views of the opposite faces of my ornamented medal.Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 4 is a transversesection of the medallic frame exhibiting it in its condition before theinsertion of the ornaments. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of the face and backof my ornamented button.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

My invention consists of a medal, button, or other similar articlecomposed of a ring or plate of solid metal constituting a frame or rimof a medallic or ornamented character surrounding one or more picturesor by any other method known to art.

The example of my invention represented contains two photographicpictures, one being presented on each face of the medal.

A is a ring or circular plate of solid metal which constitutes the frameof the medal o-r button and having` its marginal portion ornamented orinscribed in any desired or appropriate manner, and having a centralcircular cavity a c in each side for the reception of a picture, whichmay be a portrait or any other subject, and having a small raised rim Z)surrounding such cavity. This rim or plate is produced in suitable diesby a stamping press, in the manner commonly practiced to produce medals,coins, or solid metal buttons, and may or may not have a central openingc as shown in Figs. 3 and t, but as it is easier to stamp it with suchcentral opening I propose to have such an opening when there is to be apicture on each side to conceal it.

cl d are the pictures taken by photographic or other process upon sheetmetal or other suitable material. These pictures are made of a size andform to lit snugly into the cavities a a and are secured therein byplacing the ring or plate with the pictures in the said cavities in apress and pressing the raised rim Z) over the edges of the pictures.

It will be seen that more than one picture may in the manner abovedescribed be inserted into each face of the medal. By the same plan twoor more pictures may be placed into each side of the same medal, therebeing a raised rim as at Z) surrounding' each cavity into which thepicture is placed, which rim may be pressed down over the edge of thepicture as above described.

In making the button shown in Figs. 5 and 6 I insert one or morepictures into the face thereof in the manner described and leave theback of the button plain so that an eye may be attached to it in theusual manner.

Vhat I` claim as new in medals, metal buttons, and other similararticles of manufacture, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A solid metallic ornamented plate or frame produced by dies, with oneor more cavities upon either face of said plate or frame, and with araised rim surrounding each of said cavities, when said cavities arefilled with pictures substantially as described.

2. Securing` a picture to the face of a medal, metallic button, or othersimilar article by means of a projecting rim formed upon the surface ofsaid article by means of dies, which rim surrounds the picture and ispressed down upon the edge thereof substantially as described.

HUMPHREY E. oorELY.

Signed in presence of- FRANKLIN L. WELTON, NELSON J. WELTON.

